bad rendering video (1 Viewer)

[fre]

Hi,

When I watch TV with my mediaportal-client, I have this weird rendering video quality. (see image attached)
When I use other software to view/record TV, the video rendering is perfect.
Only with the mediaportal-client, I have this problem.

Anyone an idea what I should do to solve this problem?

I'm using a Hauppauge HVR-2200 Tuner in a vista 32 bit system.

 

[infinite.loop]

start -> programs -> Team MediaPortal -> MediaPortal -> MediaPortal Debug
then reproduce the issue -> close MP -> attach the log.zip file created on your desktop to your first post.

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

Hi fre, Welcome to MP

Can you confirm what graphics chip\card is in your pc, these type of issues are normally down to intel or sis gpu's, not ATI or Nvidia, but also could be a bad codec, so please list codec's used for television.

Things to try, make sure you have the latest drivers for your system, also if using a gpu on the motherboard, make sure any memory allocated in the BIOS, is not set to auto but rather a figure, preferably 256 or 512mb.

Check out the requirements page, which will give you more of a idea of hardware needed to run Mediaportal.

 

[fre]

Hi

I've uploaded the logfile.
My GPU is a MSI 8400 GS 256 MB.

I appreciate any instructions.

kind regards,
fre

 

[Paranoid Delusion]

My GPU is a MSI 8400 GS 256 MB.

That should definitely work, make sure you have latest drivers and under the directshow filter control in MP config, that EVR is enabled, also you need to be running the Vista Aero theme, to get dxva working correctly.

 

[infinite.loop]

fre
are you using community plugins?
because where do these process plugins come from?

2009-06-16 21:41:51.842144 [Info.][MPMain]: Load plugins from : C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Plugins\process\BKHelper.dll
2009-06-16 21:41:51.851144 [Info.][MPMain]: File Version : 1.0.3239.24438
2009-06-16 21:41:51.865144 [Info.][MPMain]: Load plugins from : C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Plugins\process\Borland.Delphi.dll
2009-06-16 21:41:51.869144 [Info.][MPMain]: File Version : 9.0.1761.24408
2009-06-16 21:41:51.876144 [Info.][MPMain]: Load plugins from : C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Plugins\process\Borland.VclRtl.dll
2009-06-16 21:41:51.878144 [Info.][MPMain]: File Version : 9.0.1761.24408
2009-06-16 21:41:51.973144 [Info.][MPMain]: Load plugins from : C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Plugins\process\Indy.Sockets.dll

Do you record/timeshift to a networkdrive?

tvhome:startplay:V:\MediaPortal\live6-2.ts.tsbuffer - using rtsp mode:False

Which codecs have you configured for mpeg2 and audio in Television?

And you use MediaPortal 1.0.0 could you please update to 1.0.2?
A clean installation without any communiyt plugins would be a great idea as well to find out if your issue is caused by 3rd party software.

 

[tourettes]

because where do these process plugins come from?

2009-06-16 21:41:51.842144 [Info.][MPMain]: Load plugins from : C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Plugins\process\BKHelper.dll
2009-06-16 21:41:51.851144 [Info.][MPMain]: File Version : 1.0.3239.24438
2009-06-16 21:41:51.865144 [Info.][MPMain]: Load plugins from : C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Plugins\process\Borland.Delphi.dll
2009-06-16 21:41:51.869144 [Info.][MPMain]: File Version : 9.0.1761.24408
2009-06-16 21:41:51.876144 [Info.][MPMain]: Load plugins from : C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Plugins\process\Borland.VclRtl.dll
2009-06-16 21:41:51.878144 [Info.][MPMain]: File Version : 9.0.1761.24408
2009-06-16 21:41:51.973144 [Info.][MPMain]: Load plugins from : C:\Program Files\Team MediaPortal\MediaPortal\Plugins\process\Indy.Sockets.dll

I really would like to know what plugin is behaving such badly (we should remove it right away from the repository if it is there). The plugin puts 3rd party DLL files (Borland Delphi support etc.) into the plugin folder and MediaPortal tries to load those (even when those aren't plugin files).

That is definitely not the place where 3rd party plugins should put their external dependency DLLs.

 

[fre]

as far as I know, I use 2 plugins:

1) xml-tv for my EPG which you find in the TV-service setup plugins-tab.

2) mediaportal web interface (which also contains bk helper):
link: MediaPortal - Mediacenter - - MP Web Interface
this plugin is really handy: it's easy to schedule recordings in a web-interface. the resulting recordings are in good quality: there is no bad rendering video as described in my first post.
But it is a beta-version (not always stable).

I will look tonight for a clean install with the latest release and check the EVR settings.

 

[fre]

Problem solved:
as suggested by Infinityloop, it was a matter of selecting the right codec (in my case intervideo for hauppauge).

Do you record/timeshift to a networkdrive?
Quote:
tvhome:startplay:V:\MediaPortal\live6-2.ts.tsbuffer - using rtsp mode:False

No, V is a partition on a local harddrive

Thx for all the support